BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS

A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Ellen Bass, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Lisa Rosenberg & Danusha Lameris

Monday, September 21, 2:30-4:00 pm

Hosted by Burlingame Library and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg, in collaboration with Books, Inc. & Small Press Distribution

 

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Ellen Bass’s newest collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the NEA, the California Arts Council, three Pushcart Prizes, The Lambda Literary Award, The Pablo Neruda Prize, The Larry Levis Prize and the New Letters Prize. She coedited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Animal Children (Nomadic Press, 2020)

Recipient of a Wallace Stegner and NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of two collections of poetry, Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books, 2007) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press, 2012; 2nd edition by Doubleback Books, 2020). In 2015 his short story "Taylor Swift" won the Barthelme Prize for short fiction, and his story "Goodwill" was picked as one of the Wigleaf Top Fifty Very Short Fictions of 2018. His most recent book, Animal Children, a collection of prose poems and micro-fiction, was published by Nomadic Press in 2020. He teaches writing and literature at California College of the Arts.

Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times,The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The SUN Magazine, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. Her second book is Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press), and she was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She teaches poetry independently, and is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County, California.

Lisa Rosenberg, A Different Physics (Red Mountain Press, 2018)

Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics, winner of the 2017 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, she holds degrees in physics and creative writing, and worked as an engineer in the space program. She has been awarded a 2020 Djerassi Artist Residency where she will be one of twelve international artists and scientists participating in the cross-disciplinary “Scientific Delirium Madness” residency that includes public and academic forums, and published blogs and articles in LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal from MIT Press.

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Books availability:

Ellen Bass

https://www.booksinc.net/book/9781556595752

https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3033886076

Danusha Lameris

https://www.booksinc.net/book/9780822966050

Hugh Behm-Steinberg

https://www.spdbooks.org/Author/Default.aspx?AuthorId=38066 (20% discount code: “SANMATEO”)

Lisa Rosenberg

https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2639953076

https://www.spdbooks.org/Author/Default.aspx?AuthorId=36254 (20% discount code: “SANMATEO”)